Core Knowledge Training denotes a standardized set of curricula covering the following eight Core Knowledge Areas:
- Healthy, Safe Environments
- Child Development
- Developmentally Appropriate Practice
- Observation and Assessment
- Guidance
- Relationships with Families
- Individual & Cultural Diversity & Inclusion
- Business & Professional Development
What are the benefits of enrolling in Core Knowledge Training?
Core Knowledge Training offers a consistent body of knowledge regarding best practices in early childhood education and out-of-school time programming for both new and experienced practitioners. Core Knowledge Training can be used:
- To move practitioners up the first four Levels of the Direct Care, Public School, and Legal, Unregulated Career Lattices.
- Toward earning a Maine Credential.
- To meet training requirements for national accreditation.
- Toward earning a Child Development Associate Credential (CDA).
To meet annual training requirements of Child Care Licensing.
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Description: Free training which includes the required H&S renewal.
Required Health and Safety Training
The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG, also known as Child Care Development Fund, or CCDF) Reauthorization of 2014 requires that all practitioners caring for children and youth receiving CCDF subsidy will have completed a basic health and safety training covering ten specific health and safety-related topics in order to receive federal funding.
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